Ok every one loves the server and the hard work the devs have provided, but some thing needs to be done to the balance of the server the population has dropped dramatically. A year ago or so we'd see 500+ players on at peak hours i've actually seen 800 before. Now prime time is about 230.... We all knew from the STs' that the fun would be over no more easy mode but we didn't realize that it would be nerfed completely, i mean all that were down for reworking all their toons after the wipe/s saw grouping/jobs xp nerfed so hard it was tough lots still willing to deal non the less. But in efforts to maybe stop multiboxers from leveling too fast you need to have a 6 man group to make up for the xp hit while grouped with only a couple, making combat groups worthless and tours the new thing. Promoting solo play even more, through all this up hill battle the light at the end of the tunnel is weak, the raids are scaled for too many people back in ST2 it was discussed that raids would be population appropriate so far its only proprietary to 3 larger guilds and not enough left over for public to form raids due to needing too many in the raid to complete it (and good non raid gear thats not dropping enough). I see people in market begging for low level printable gear for days, where a year ago there was so many on it would take minutes for that item to be sold or given to them. No one wants to listen to this only flame and kiss the devs butts for making the server possible, but if we don't make the server fun it won't last. Who wants to come home from work to play a game thats like a second job with little payout? Like i said in guild chat it should be challenging yet not world of warcraft easy but yet its lost its fun.....again like during live we all cry about live days but for all of those that were there for the whole 2 years at the end we were bored of the game. EA dropped the ball on content now its a little different Net-7 seems to just want to suck the fun out of the game and when you have to kill the boss in VG (Sagut and Bison actually killed both of them on 3 diff toons dozens of times and gotten x1 L8 slime shield and x1 slime ball!!!! lol) to get the L7 ooze shield to drop 20 times and all you've gotten is trash loot then the response is "working as intended" so its intended to be void of fun and fruitless? Lets fix this or its doomed for failure :(
I expect to hear lots of hate for this from members and from the devs, that they put the game back on deal with it as is.
The games second chance is going down the drain some one plug that drain!!!! lol